Upcoming Eventsno events match your query!
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
The SakerIndymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Human Rights in IrelandIndymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
|
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday May 27, 2008 18:19 by Grassroots Gathering 2008
The events of Genoa 2001 are still going through the courts, as the Genova Legal Forum puts the state on trial for human rights crimes during the Diaz raid and at Bolzaneto detention centre. The verdicts are in soon, and Activist Trauma Support are touring with films and information. All funds raised go towards the case and the survivors. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday May 27, 2008 18:18 by David White 1 attached file
Amnesty International Irish Section, Trócaire and the Irish Centre for Human Rights host: Jeff Halper, leading Israeli human rights activist For thirty years Jeff Halper has been one of the leading figures in the Israeli peace movement. Co-founder and Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He has just published a new book, “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel”. Jeff Halper is credited with pioneering the use of nonviolent action and civil disobedience to resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes and mobilizing international support to rebuild these houses. Since 1967 18,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the Occupied Territories in violation of international law. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday May 27, 2008 15:12 by Ciaron
"Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73" Nevada City, California: Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday May 27, 2008 13:52 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
Bhí slua mór daoine, cuid mhaith acu a tháinig ó Bhaile Átha Cliath agus ó Dhoire agus ó áiteanna eile, taobh amuigh de Chúirteanna Cois Lagáin i mBéal Feirste ar maidin ag léiriú a gcuid tacaíochta le Naonúr Raytheon a bhí os comhar na cúirte arís inniu. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 27, 2008 12:11 by Howard Holby
In the former parts of this study it has been demonstrated that the pro-Lisbon European political class has transformed the system considered “parliamentary democracy” into constitutional dictatorship. The parliamentary offices of the elected have become ineffective as democratic institutions and are maintained for a purpose opposite of democracies: to serve the interests of a small political oligarchy. In this part we examine how a "yes" vote on the Lisbon Treaty and the consequent loss of national sovereignty would determine our future. Denying the loss of national sovereignty as the main implication of ratifying a treaty that is “to provide the legal basis for consolidating and further developing the Union’s action in the field of economic, social and territorial cohesion” is merely a dishonest act of arbitrarily omitting the appropriate dictionary definition of a given concept. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday May 27, 2008 09:44 by Edward Horgan
We must continue to connect up the dotted lines in the web of deceipt, mass murder, torture and militarisation that is being facilitated at Shannon airport. The Lisbon Treaty, with its NATO entanglement is part of this growing web, as is Ireland's fraudulent neutrality. Well over one million US troops have transited through Shannon airport since 20 March 2003. CIA are still using Shannon as a refuelling stop for its torture rendition planes, usually at about 2 am in the morning. Torture is best hidden in the dark of night. One million US troops fighting unlawful wars, also need millions of tons of military cargo including depleted uranium bombs, so that they can more easily kill innocent people. When one is engaged in an unlawful war, all the victims of such a war are innocent. The principal unlawful combatants in Iraq are the US military and US and other colaition of the willing mercenaries such as Blackwater. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / feature Tuesday May 27, 2008 01:18 by Paula Geraghty
'We'll be back', promised residents of St Michael's Estate, O'Devaney Gardens, Sean McDermott St and Dominic Street at a protest held outside Dublin City Council at a special meeting held on the evening of May 26th. Plans to redevelop the areas collapsed when wealthy developer, Bernard McNamara, cried off because he wouldn't make enough money. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 26, 2008 20:57 by Paula Geraghty
Hundreds gathered to protest against the destruction and devastation caused by Cluster Bombs as part of an international series of events around a conference calling to make the banning of Cluster Bombs happen. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday May 26, 2008 18:18 by pat c
On Saturday - Sunday, 14-15th June 2008 Hands Off the People of Iran will hold a weekend school, in University of London Union, Malet Street to discuss issues regarding the threat of war, sanctions and various aspects of the opposition to the the rule of the theocracy, inside Iran. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday May 26, 2008 15:20 by Belfast WSM
Workers Solidarity Movement read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday May 26, 2008 15:12 by Miriam Cotton
A surprise awaits John Bolton, one of the chief architechts of the illegal invasion of Iraq, at the Hay book festival this Wednesday. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 26, 2008 15:01 by TD
For the past two weeks the focus of the Free Palestine Campaign group in Galway has been harvesting signatures for our petition calling on the EU (and the Irish government to work towards effecting it) to suspend or terminate the Euro-Med Agreement, which economically privileges Israel with access to the EU market, due to that country's gross and willful trampling of Palestinian human rights, International Law, Geneva Conventions and Part 2 of the Agreement . When it comes to Palestine, the moral rot of the EU in refusing to suspend the Agreement does'nt stop there, it's deep and pernicious and with the passing of the Lisbon Treaty will deleteriously effect and infect Palestine further?. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 26, 2008 14:43 by Belfast Anti War Movement
Over 200 people have signed a letter opposing the upcoming visit of George Bush to Belfast read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 26, 2008 14:27 by No! 2 Lisbon
Ógra Shinn Féin activists protested outside Belfast City Hall this past weekend, to highlight the denial of democracy by Fianna Fáil and the Irish Government, in their desperate attempts to push through the Lisbon Treaty. The youth wing of Sinn Féin held a protest with street theatre, and distributed 1,000s of leaflets posing the question, "Why can't you vote in the Lisbon Treaty?"; in reference to the denial of Irish Citizens in the 6 counties from voting in the upcoming referendum. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 26, 2008 12:06 by Kevin Doyle
A series of anarchist posters in Cork have begun to make a dent on the deluge of Vote Yes posters that appeared in Cork just over a week ago courtesy of Fianna Fail and the small businesses organisation, IBEC. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 26, 2008 11:43 by TD
Professor of Anthropology, Jeff Halper, co-founder and Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been a leading figure within the Israeli peace movement for over thirty years. Jeff was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni. He is also the recipient of the Olive Branch Award from Jewish Voice for Peace in the USA and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award from the Italian town of Ovada. read full story / add a comment
down / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday May 26, 2008 00:34 by Mark Hewitt
GEORGE BUSH – NOT WANTED HERE We are appalled at the news that George Bush will visit Belfast next month. It is disgraceful that his visit is as a result of an invitation issued by the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. This part of the world more than most places has an understanding of the deep damage and pain that war and conflict produces. George Bush is internationally regarded as a warmonger. The so called “war on terror”, now rebranded as the “war for democracy” that he has championed has inflicted that damage and pain on countless millions. read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / event notice Sunday May 25, 2008 18:25 by Housing is a right
Tenants angered that a multi millionaire developer has pulled out of regeneration plans for 5 marginalised communities because he wouldn't make enough money out of it. Join the protest Monday 6pm City Hall dame St. Be there and make some noise. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday May 25, 2008 17:56 by Laura Broxson
Join us on Saturday! read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday May 25, 2008 09:15 by Howard Holby
The transformation of democratic rule of law into a law to support an EU-federalist oligarchy is however far from getting the whole picture of Europe’s current and projected political system. In this part we compare the main features of the political system of Ireland known as “parliamentary democracy” with the basic criteria of democracy identified by experts of political theory [11] by reconciling two complementary widely accepted democracy-indexes: of Polity and Freedom House. After matching the observations of the system in Ireland with the two essential features of parliamentary democracy, which fill the word “democracy” with its actual meaning - meaningful elections and political freedom -, we find that these are converging to a zero value in Ireland under the overwhelming pressure of Lisbon. (In order to keep one reading unit within a reasonable length we would prefer to post the three parts of the article as separate publications.) read full story / add a comment |
|